About our new members
Irish Greyhound Board
The Irish Greyhound Board has announced a new membership with Guaranteed Irish. The announcement comes as the Irish Greyhound Board is getting ready to head to the UK and across Ireland to a range of events and workshops to promote Ireland and the organisation to tourist bodies at home and abroad. Each year the Irish Greyhound Board welcomes over 40,000 international tourists to Ireland and greyhound stadia across the country. France, Germany and the UK are the organisation's top three countries that international tourists come from.
"As a sporting organisation in Ireland we are delighted to be able to use Ireland's most trusted and recognised symbol for Irish goods and services while promoting Irish greyhound racing at home and abroad," said the Irish Greyhound Board's head of marketinig Orla Strumble.
"This weekend alone Shelbourne Park and Harold's Cross greyhound stadiums are welcoming almost 1,000 French tourists for a night of racing while they are over for the 6 Nations game. Attracting foreign tourists to Ireland plays a large role in what we do annually and we are looking forward to welcoming tens of thousands more people to greyhound tracks across Ireland in 2013 and beyond. The addition of the Guaranteed Irish symbol will give us extra credibility whilst we target new tourist audiences for 2014."
This year also marks the 55th anniversary of the Irish Greyhound Board and the 85th anniversary of Harold's Cross Greyhound Stadium.
Pictured: Head of marketing at the Irish Greyhound Board Orla Stumble; Tom Rea, Guaranteed Irish; Brian Purcell (St Patrick); and Elizabeth Hunt, Guaranteed Irish
Human + Kind
Human+Kind is a breakthrough in skin care which will change your life as much as it will change your skin. Created for women everywhere who are tired of wasting time and money on unnecessary products, Human+Kind is a new ethos in skincare for today’s time pressed woman – simple, superior natural and dependable beauty products that multi-task as much as they do.
Cakebombs
Self confessed foodie, Debbie first learned to bake in her Mother's kitchen and just like her Mum did, she loves to cook and bake for family and friends. A little over 4 years ago, Debbie began designing and making cakes from birthdays to wedding, classic to quirky. A passionate hobby that quickly grew for baking and all things Sweet! After becoming a mum herself in 2010, Debbie decided to take the plunge and start her own business. CakeBombs was born and launched in December 2011.
All their CakeBombs and Treats are hand baked, using the finest quality ingredients including couverture Belgian chocolate and Irish butter.
Individually wrapped, CakeBombs and Treats come in gift boxes of 6 or 12 delivered direct to your door. They are the perfect way to indulge and share, a unique way to say something sweet..
MedColl®
The Collagen Company, an independent Irish owned biotech company owned by Mullingar businesswoman Roz Martin, has launched MedColl®, the latest innovation in nutritional skincare and anti-ageing. MedColl® is a Guaranteed Irish health supplement manufactured in Ireland, under license by the Irish Medicines Board and registered with the FSAI.
Chilly Moo
Chilly Moo is a 100% unique and completely natural Irish Frozen Yogurt designed to appeal to children (and anyone else looking to satisfy their sweet tooth) with something that’s creamy and scrumptious but healthier than the usual options.
We launched our frozen yogurt in June and are now stocked in over 40 shops around Dublin and have just begun to move into Cork.
We have received extremely favourable media coverage in amongst others, The Sunday TImes, The Irish Times and The Sunday Business Post magazines as well as other magazines such as Image Interiors and Food & Wine. (For further details of our Stockists and Media coverage, please go to www.chillymoo.ie ).
We are also in the last 25 of the Foodworks programme - a joint enterprise run by Bord Bia, Teagasc and Enterprise Ireland to identify and develop High Potential Start Up food businesses. It has been hectic but extremely beneficial to Chilly Moo!
The Rowa Group
Rowa an innovative company was established in Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland in 1959. Rowa Pharmaceuticals and Rowex Ltd (the Irish marketing division) co-operate closely, particularly in the field of product development and technology transfer.
Our complementary business activities enable us to achieve cost reductions, time and production efficiency and market expansion worldwide with an international presence across the globe, ROWA has representatives in almost every country, reaching out to meet all nations' healthcare needs.
Rowex – Irish marketing division of Rowa Pharmaceuticals Ltd was established in 1993, to provide this market with high quality branded generic pharmaceuticals. ROWEX is committed to providing excellent service and support to the company’s Irish customers. This is sustained by full complement of a medical sales team to satisfy the requirements of both the medical profession and pharmacists.
The Irish Handmade Glass Company
After the closure of the Waterford Crystal factory in January 2009, a group of Master craftsmen with a combined total of over 130 years experience in glass-making, came together and made the decision to set up a glass making facility of their own in the very heart of Waterford City.
Located in the new 'Kite Design Studio', The Irish Handmade Glass Company aim to bring the craft of glass making to life for visitors to historic Henrietta Street in the Viking Quarter of Waterford City. Watch in amazement as renowned Glass Master, Richard Rowe transforms the molten glass into works of art before your very eyes. Our aim, along with keeping the craft alive, is to create beautiful, affordable glassware, both crystal clear and also coloured which is not only pleasing to the eye, but also practical to use.
In these modern times the vast majority of glass making companies now use automation to produce their products. Here at The Irish Handmade Glass Company all our products have been hand made here on our premises in historic Waterford City. Our glass is a non-lead based crystal, ‘Crystalline’ which is melted from its pellet form in our purpose built furnace which produces 385 lbs of glass per day. We welcome visitors to our studio to experience our craft and see first hand how glass is formed in the traditional way.
Our designs can be purchased online and we are now selling in several stores around the country including: Kilkenny Shop Nassau Street Dublin, Treasure Chest Galway, An Standun Spideal, Hibernian Gifts Waterford, Shaws Jewellers Sligo, Mourne Antiques Letterkenny, Sterling Jewellers Newbridge Kildare and The Craft Granery in Cahir. We are also exporting to Germany and USA.
Find our more at: http://theirishhandmadeglasscompany.com
PIXY - Natural Skincare
PIXY - Natural Skincare is a pure, new natural skincare range, handmade lovingly in Ireland from natural ingredients, harnessing the healing and revitalizing power of Mother Nature. We use nature’s best in all our products including moisturising unrefined shea butter, cocoa butter, fast-absorbing sweet almond oil and healing vitamin E oil to leave your skin soft and supple. We use essential oils for their amazing fragrance; some energise you, others bring you back in harmony to calm you and soothe away stress.
PIXY - Natural Skincare came to everyone’s attention when it was presented on Dragons’ Den on St. Patrick’s weekend 2012. PIXY products were conceived and developed as an Irish brand that could substitute for imported products but that offered value for money as the range is priced at a 20% reduction to the leading imported brands, making Pixy luxurious, affordable, fun and Irish.
The product was originally conceived, developed and tested in 2010. Research and development of the product range started in the spring of 2010 and the initial phase was completed by spring 2011 when the product was launched in two local pharmacies in Mallow. PIXY - Natural Skincare is now being taken from the initial product development phase to being launched as a national brand and hopefully over the coming years as an international Irish brand. There has been considerable interest in the product since it was seen on Dragons’ Den with expressions of interest from as far afield as Russia and America, and we have been overwhelmed by the interest in the product in Ireland from distributors, retailers and consumers.
PIXY - Natural Skincare products are made from pure natural ingredients, handcrafted in Ireland. We are very proud to have been awarded the Guaranteed Irish symbol as recognition of our commitment to create employment in Ireland.
Find our more at: www.pixy.ie
Cathy's Spelt for Health
Cathy Whitty, the founder of 'Cathy's Spelt for Health' started her business after suffering from a severe allergic reaction leaving her hospitalised. Cathy was put on an exclusion diet to identify the food groups causing the problem. Wheat was to be avoided. Cathy set about to create an easily digestible bread mix for others suffering also with the common wheat sensitivity using spelt flour instead of wheat. She was soon distributing her range of spelt products to over 100health food outlets nationwide and travelling all over the country to meet the growing demand.
“We have witnessed a lot of interest in our wheat-free products since we launched our range a couple of years ago. The biggest problem is that wheat is so prevalent in Western foods and there are few alternatives available on the market. Spelt has long been recognized as providing an excellent alternative to those wishing to avoid wheat. Many of its benefits come from the fact that it offers a broader spectrum of nutrients and it's also been found to be much easier to digest than traditional wheat” says Cathy.
We are currently stocked in over 100 outlets nationwide. In the past few months we have won Two Gold Stars at the Great Taste Awards for our Flapjack Mix and most recently won joint Gold at The Blas na hEireann National Irish Food Awards in Dingle.
Find out more at www.cathysspeltforhealth.ie
C&F Green Energy
C&F Green Energy is a leading provider of renewable energy, with a mission to make wind energy affordable and available to everyone. The company will achieve this using the latest technologies, innovations and manufacturing expertise to enhance wind energy at all levels of demand.
C&F Green Energy is part of the globally renowned C&F Group. C&F was first established in 1989 in Galway, Ireland and now employs over one thousand people in over six sites worldwide. With locations in Ireland, Germany, the UK, The Czech Republic, the Philippines and China, C&F is a global company with a local face.
The C&F Groups value proposition is to deliver superior products and services to its clients globally. The company has assembled a first class team of industrial design experts to deliver solutions based on innovation and engineering excellence. The group's success is attributed to its unrivalled levels of workmanship quality, streamlined manufacturing processes and un-surpassed levels of customer care and retention.
C&F Green Energy was officially established by the C&F Group in 2006. The group recognised the need to provide a more powerful wind energy solution for the home, farm and business owner. With its experience in the manufacturing area, C&F set about designing an innovative wind turbine that would combine unrivalled performance and power with clean aesthetics and reliability.
The company created an innovative range of medium-sized turbines that incorporate the same advanced technologies that are used in Mega-Watt sized machines. Leveraging off the company's expertise in manufacturing and design and its global reach, has enabled C&F Green Energy to offer this advanced technology at very competitive prices.
C&F Green Energy is committed to continuous product improvement and is currently investing almost 2.5 million euro per annum in R&D.
Find out more at www.cfgreenenergy.com